socialism

Trenton’s legislating machine is running in over-drive. The radicals who are running the engine of big government have opened the throttle of central planning and are bent on ramming through their agenda, regardless of disturbing economic indicators, skyrocketing taxes and the evacuation of job producing taxpayers.

The Swedish-style Paid Family Leave scheme is being railroaded through the legislature, despite its destructive effect on the state’s small business community.

It is clear that the big-government radicals running Trenton today will stop at nothing to advance their vision of an even bigger nanny state no matter what or who is destroyed on the way to achieving the “Common Good.” So much so that they will pass drastically flawed and dangerous bills that will destroy New Jersey’s competitive business climate in favor of emotion based, job destroying politics. This time, however, they got caught on a procedural technicality.

This November, Governor Corzine should have learned an important lesson.  The people of New Jersey are not as “hopelessly liberal” as some would have us think, turning back his radical agenda by voting no on two ballot questions.  In the light of open public debate, the liberal blueprint for our state’s future fails miserably.  

During his budget address last March Governor Corzine confessed that his childhood hero is Dag Hammarskjold, the father of the planned central economy, or modern day socialism. This system is the polar opposite of the free-market philosophy that drove America to be the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen.

I am as supportive of the great calibrating power of the free market as any believer of individual liberty should be - and most Democrat politicians and a majority of Republicans, are not.